I wanted to agree with this article but when I read it, I found myself thinking things like, "wait.. more Americans are lower class, but the threshold for Amer

I wanted to agree with this article but when I read it, I found myself thinking things like, "wait.. more Americans are lower class, but the threshold for Americans to be middle class is way higher than for other countries...". I'm pretty sure that "middle class" is one of those political marketing terms that don't mean anything anyway. I mean, the division into 3 instead of 2 or 4 is totally arbitrary. The reason politicians pick 3 is because a) it's a nice round number that has an air of truthiness and b) everybody thinks they're middle class, so then the politician can go on about how their policies are good for the middle class. I think a better way to divide class is into 2 classes: owners and workers. Then you're really addressing the fact that there are two sources that money flows from: property and labor. The selling of the concept of the "middle class" is one of the great marketing ploys of history.